Cronulla Riots – 2005

Following the bashing of two North Cronulla Lifeguards the previous weekend, around five thousand people flocked to Cronulla in Sydney’s South for what was dubbed ‘Leb and Wog bashing day’. The day began with what could easily have been mistaken for an Australia Day street party but quickly descended into a maelstrom of racially motivated violence in what became known as the Cronulla Riots.